Things to do in Kunming

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Kunming featuring landscape views, a skyscraper and a city
Kunming featuring a sunset, a skyscraper and a city
Kunming featuring signage and a city as well as a small group of people
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Kunming Zoo

Kunming City Centre

Kunming City Centre is noteworthy for its lake views, and you can make a stop at top attractions like Green Lake Park and Nanping Pedestrian Street.

Kunming City Centre
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Guandu

You'll enjoy the parks and waterfront in Guandu. You might want to make time for a stop at Yunnan Provincial Museum or Lake Dian.

Guandu
The Wanda Plaza comes complete with an IMAX theatre.  Soon, Kunming will look just like every other city in the world...just a bit more crowded.

The Wanda Plaza towers, when completed, will be the 88th and 89th tallest skyscrapers in the world.

Xishan District

You'll enjoy the restaurants and museums in Xishan District. You might want to make time for a stop at Kunming Sports Training Base or West Pagoda.

Xishan District
Kunming Zoo

Wuhua District

If you're spending some time in Wuhua District, Kunming Zoo and Green Lake Park are top sights worth seeing.

Wuhua District
This was once a little village outside of Kunming.  It is now less than one mile from my modern apartment complex and is next to the newly built subway line.  Across the way is a cement factory which is churning out the liquid foundation for the new urban complex emerging all around this cultural backwater.  The living meat to the left will soon become the hanging meat to the right which will presumably be served to the locals dining inside the restaurant.  I can only imagine what they talk about.

Panlong

Panlong is noteworthy for its restaurants, and you can make a stop at top attractions like Kunming Botanical Garden and Yulan Park.

Panlong
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a product of nature, albeit an infinitesimal one.  Nature includes quantum particles, black holes, and the expanding parts of the universe filled with dark energy.  Within the scope of space-time, patience is really the only option.

Xiao Ximen

The museums and parks are just a few features travelers like about Xiao Ximen. If you want to do some sightseeing nearby, Green Lake Park and West Pagoda are a few top places to visit.

Xiao Ximen